Word: ils
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Rachele Mussolini, 61, widow of the late Benito, finally got possession of her old dowry farm near Forlì, plus six other farms and two villas once owned by the dictator. One catch: the government slapped a $16,000 mortgage on the property owned by Il Duce, which represented, it said, wartime profits made during his regime...
...Star was not the first paper to find that Pogo's pals are as loyal and vociferous as L'il Abner's. After only 14 months of syndication, Pogo is appearing in 126 U.S. newspapers. A current poll by the Saturday Review of Literature shows Pogo is in seventh place among comic strips, ahead of Terry & the Pirates, just behind Steve Canyon...
...League team: g, Ben North of Brown; rfb, Alex Athanassiades of Yale; lfb, jackson Hall of Dartmouth; rhb, Art Pappas of Springfield; chb, Paul Deitsche of Yale; lhb, Don Spreen of Springfield; ol, Court Nelson of Trinity; il, Ash Eames of Amherst; Cf, Burnett; ir, Weiss; or, Goldstein...
...casually mates the characters and whisks them out of sight like so many folding chairs. He skims over a world where things cut two ways and cancel one another out. He is very civilized, possibly overcivilized: the sort of man who would add s'il vous plaît to the Ten Commandments...
...same time, General Marcel Alessandri, 65-year-old infantryman, was relieved as commander of the Tonkin area and replaced by General Pierre Georges Boyer de la Tour du Moulin, 63, who has an intimate knowledge of Indo-China and a reputation for energy and aggressiveness. Say his colleagues: "Il a beaucoup de mordant" (He has plenty of bite...